The functionality of this mainboard has been significantly expanded with additional onboard controllers that provide the board with such features as wireless, FireWire, additional PCI-E slots, SATA and USB 3.0 ports. This board could become the base for a high-end computer system, although there are a few things to keep in mind while doing that.

Overclocked Mode

ASRock board does better during overclocking and is at the top of the diagrams most of the time. However, it is important to take into account its CPU and memory overclocking results. The table below shows what we obtained on different mainboards:

ASRock Z77 Extreme9 looks way better than others during overclocking, because it managed to hit the maximum CPU frequency. However, among other mainboards that overclocked the processor to the same 4.6 GHz it is usually at the end of the pack, which means that nothing has really changed compared with what we have just seen in the nominal mode. Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3 mainboard is a little faster than average, ASRock Z77 Extreme9 – a little slower than average, so despite the difference in their overclocking results, their performance numbers are very close and Gigabyte mainboard is sometimes even ahead of the ASRock.